More Speed with HTTP/2

With immediate effect, our servers support the HTTP/2 standard. What does that mean for our clients? Many benefits for users thanks to faster page loading, and therefore for Google too.

The new protocol version above all promises increased speed. By keeping the TCP connection open permanently, several requests with different priorities can take place simultaneously. The so-called server push also brings a considerable improvement: required files can be sent directly to the browser so that it already has them when displaying the page. With HTTP/2, the header of a request is also compressed. Its complete information is only transmitted with the first request – after that, only the information that is new.

HTTP/2, published in 2015, is now supported by all modern browsers. We are therefore making it available to our clients from now on as well. Websites hosted on our servers and accessed via HTTPS have already been switched to the new protocol.